Ben-David, Zvi (Karl)
Son of Ida and Eliahu, was born on January 10, 1925 in Vienna, the capital of Austria, and acquired a popular education. The youngest member of the workers’ family is cared for by eleven children. Zvi received a Zionist education from his youth. With the outbreak of the Second World War he immigrated to Eretz Israel alone. His brother Haim joined him later on. For a long time he had to stay in Yugoslavia for illness. His brothers joined Tito’s partisans and fell in battle. After many wanderings in Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon he managed to reach Palestine in 1941. He began his career in the kibbutzim but soon joined the British army and after his discharge served in the police. As a policeman was once caught carrying illegal weapons and imprisoned for a year and a half in the Acre prison. With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he volunteered and served in the Jerusalem Brigade and participated in escorting convoys to the Negev and Jerusalem. Was a departmental medic in the battles of Castel and the siege of Jerusalem and defenders of the Old City. On the 19th of Tammuz 5707 (19.7.1948) he fell in defense of the Batei Ungerin neighborhood in Jerusalem, helping a wounded friend. Was buried in Sheikh Bader A. On the 17th of Elul 5710 (August 30, 1950), he was put to rest at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Apart from his wife and sisters, who are abroad and his brother immigrated to Israel in 1939 and is in Kibbutz Kedma, all his family were murdered by the Nazis.
